THE PICTURE HOUSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 3 December 1927, Page 7

THE PICTURE HOUSES

COSY DE LUXE. Laugh waves mingled with crime waves are the ruling forces of “Too Many Crooks,” the Paramount picture which commences at the Cosy Theatre. The photoplay, which marks Mildred Davis’ return to the screen after an absence of almost four years, is a farce comedy of a wealthy debutante who believes she is capable of writing a good- crook drama. To obtain realism, she invites four members of New Yorks best underworld society to her home for a week-end party, that she may study them first hand—which is what starts the laughs, mix-ups and 'thrills. Thunder, the sensational police dog starred in Eox Films version of “Wings of the Storm,” also at the Cosy does not understand the English language, having been trained in German to avoid the confusion of the directions to the other actors. Frank Foster Davis, owner and trainer of Thunder, is one of the best-informed authorities on German police dogs in America. For the past twelve years he has been engaged in training and developing police dogs and by three generations of intensive breeding has developed in Thunder an animal which for intelligence surpasses anything canine. MUNICIPAL. Pete Morrison, supported by his whole "menagerie,” is the star of “The Desperate Game,” the latest Universal western released, which comes to the Municipal Theatre tonight. The popular western star is seen with his three trained animals in every picture, and has spent many patient hours 'training them to obey commands when before the camera. Lightning, his horse, is one of the best trained mounts in pictures, and ranks with Scout, Jack Hoxie’s steed; Buddy, Art Acord’s horse, and the others, as an animal of almost human intelligence. Duke, Morrison's collie dog, is another member of the troupe, and so well-trained is he that the star is often becieged by other producers who want to rent him for use in pictures. The strangest member of this trio of animals, however, is Thunder, a mule of nondescript parentage but of much value as a comedian.